Professor Eddy

C-Heads Magazine Enjoy this new episode of Sunshine Radio , again with some long forgotten radio fragments! The tracks by Kim Et Moi, Giorgio Lopez and State Cows are brand new. Gary Fane (Geert Veen) was born in my home town Groningen in 1942. He seemed to come from nowhere when he launched his ambitious concept album Horoscope , his musical interpretation of the zodiac, in 1980. At the time only a few people were aware that he was the original singer of The Surfers, known for the European, Beach Boys inspired hit Windsurfin' a few years earlier. Like Milli Vanilli, the tv-performances of the single were lip-synced by models, because Gary Fane himself was already in his late thirties when this song about high school fun was on the pop chart. He passed away in 2019. Horoscope has recently been remastered and re-issued. Until this day Evie Sands remains a very underrated singer/songwriter, although she has received more appreciation in recent years, especially in the English North...

C-Heads Magazine This week we will sail along the Dutch West Coast and play some AOR, yacht rock & polder pop from the Netherlands. A lot of Dutch bands and musicians were influenced by the late seventies/early eighties West Coast sound, like so many artists elsewhere. “Perfect sitting down dancing music”, according to Questlove in an upcoming HBO documentary about yacht rock. In 1974 successful Dutch band The Cats went to L.A. to record Love In Your Eyes with the best West Coast musicians around in those days, like keyboard player/producer Michael Omartian (Christopher Cross). Be My Day from the album became a number one hit in the Netherlands and reached the 18th position on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. A year later they again went to L.A. and made an album with Jeff Porcaro, David Foster and Larry Carlton as first class musicians. Unfortunately, both West Coast albums did not bring them the international success that they wanted and they split soon afterwards, alth...